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EDWARD LLOYD. 

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WASHINGTON BOOTH, 
EDWARD LLOYD, 
J. L. McLANE, 
H. E. JOHNSTON, 
T. H. MORRIS, 
T. B. FERflUSON, 
ED. PATT15R.S0N, Jr., 
J. HANSON THOMAS. 
ALEX. D. BROWN. 
JOHN ELLICOTT, 
JACOB BRANDT, Jr., 
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RULE I. 



The regailar Annual Meeting of the Maryland 
Jockey Club shah be held during tlie month of 
Octolier in each year. There may also be a Spring 
Meeting if so decided by the Executive Committee. 

RULE II. 

There shall be elected annually by ballot, a Presi- 
dent, two Vice-Presidents, (one from the Eastern and 
one from the Western shore of the State,) a Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, who. together with ten meml)ers 
elected in like manner, shall constitute an Executive 
Committee, wdio shall serve for one year, and he re- 
eligible. 

RULE III. 

There sliall he appointed annually, by the Execu- 
tive Committee, a Clerk of the Course and five Race 
Stewards, who shall serve for one year next succeed- 
ing their appointment. 

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RULE IV. 

It sliall be the duty of tlie President to preside at 
all meetino-s of the Executive Committee and the 
Club, and to see the rules and regulations strictly 
enforced. He shall act as Presiding- Judge at all 
races when present. 

RULE V. 

It shall be the duty of the Vice-Presidents to 
attend all meeting's, and assist tlie President in the 
discharge of his duties. In the absence of the Pres- 
ident, tlie tirst Vice-President, and in liis absence 
the second Vice-Pref?ident shall act as sucli. 

The President or either Vice-President may call a 
meeting- of the Club, wlienever he may deem it 
proper, or upon tlie written requisition of tifteeu 
members. 

RULE VL 

It sJiall be the duty of tlie Secretary to attend all 
meetings of the Executive Committee and the Club: 
keep a record of the proceedings of both, and dis- 
charge such other duties as may l)e entrusted to liiui 
liy the Executive Committee. 

RULE vn. 

The Treasurer sliall receive the mone_y of the Club, 
and shall keep regular accounts to lie presented at 
each regular meeting of the Cluli, and in the inter- 



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vals to be subject to the inspection of the Executive 
Committee. He shall not par out the money of thie 
Club in any case, except upon the ^\Titten order of 

the President and Secretary. 

RULE VIII. 

The Executive Committee .shall exerci^_ a general 
superintendeuee over the afl&irs of the Club, and 
have charge of the Club Hou.oe and its adminL«!tra- 
tion, preserving order in the rooms and enforcing a 
strict observance of the rules And it shall l>e their 
duty to establish rules and regulations for the gov- 
ernment of the C1u1j. not contrary to the articles of 
tlie Constitution. 

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They shall hold stated meetings at least once in 
every three months, at which five of the members 
shall constitute a quorum. The decision upon ques- 
tions before them shall l>e by a majority of the votes 
present, except when otherwise provided for by the 
Constitntion. 

RULE IX. 

Xew members can only l>e admitted on nomina- 
tion. Three black balls shall reject. A non-resident 
of Maryland introduced by a memlx^r, can liave the 
privilege of the enclosed space and meml>ers stand 
\t\ paving ten dollars, for the meeting. 

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RULE X. 

Ten members of tlie Club sliall be deemed a quo- 
rum for the transaction of ordinary business and 
admission of meml)ers, Init not less tlian twenty to 
alter a fundamental rule, unless pu))lie notice shall 
have been given ten days of such contemplated 
meetino- and its object. 

RULE XI. 

Members of the Club shall paj- an initiation fee of 
twenty-five dollars, and a suliscription of twenty-tive 
dollars at each meeting', not exceeding two meetings 
in any one year. Subscription to he paid wliether 
present or absent. No badge will be delivered \mtil 
paid for. Memlters sliall be entitled to attend all 
races run ovei- the Course under the control of the 
Club, and to all the privileges of the Course. During 
a race tliey will l)e required to wear the badge of 
membership in such manner as to be at all times 
seen. None hut members, except as in Rules IX 
and XIV, and invited guests and ladies introduced 
by members, can be admitted into the Members or 
Ladies Stand. 

RULE XII. 

Members wishing to resign shall enclose their 
resignation to the Treasurer, at least thirty days pre- 
vious to a race meeting; and no resignation present- 
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accepted. The names of members not resigning, and 
failing to pay their sul:)Scription when applied to, 
shall be posted by the Treasnrer in the Jndges' 
Stand, at three p. m. on the last day's race, and in 
the frame provided for notices in the Club House. 

RULE XIII. 

In case of persistence in the infraction of a rule 
by a member, or of any conduct on the part of a 
member which may tend to endanger the good order, 
character or welfare of the Club, the Executive Com- 
mittee may, by a vote of two-thirds of their whole 
number, expel said offending member from the Club. 

RULE XIV. 

The families of members, (youths over sixteen 
years of age excepted,) shall pass the gate free and 
be admitted to the Members or Ladies Stand. The 
rates of admittance for all other persons shall be 
established by the Executive Committee. 

RULE XV. 

The Duties of Officers and the Racing and Betting 
Rules as prescril:)ed and adopted by the American 
Jockey Club, March 9th, 1869, shall be the rules of 
this Club, except when they conflict with the pro- 
visions of this Constitution. 



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RULE XVI. 

Life Members may be elected by the Club, wiio, 
upon payment of five hundred dollars, shall be enti- 
tled to all the privileges of the Club and be exempt 
from the annual subscription. 






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RULE I. 
Duties of R:ife Stewards 

The Race Stewards shall have the enth-e manage- 
ment of the racing during the term for which they 
Iiave Ijeen appointed, and, for all purposes connected 
with the races, shall have full control of the Course 
and Stands, and the grounds appertaining thereto: 
tliey • shall appoint the Judges, Distance Judges, 
Handicapper, Timers and Starter, either from among 
themselves or not, as they may see fit ;■ they shall 
exact compliance with all racing rules within their 
province, maintain the authority of the Judges and 
Starter, and enforce all penalties prescribed by the 
racing rules ; they shall be charged with the police 
of the Course and shall have power to fine, suspend, 
rule off or expel any person for misl)ehavior, or for 
violation of any regulation they may establish, which 
does not conflict witli the racing rules. 



RULE IL 
Majority fo Govern. 

When the Race Stewards differ in opinion, 
decision of a majority shall prevail. 

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RULE III. 
Power to Postpono. 

T]ie Race Stewards sliali have power to postpone 
races. 

RULE IV. 
Siihstilules for Aliseiit Slowards. 

Should there I'C necessity on a race-day for prompt 
judicial action on tlie part of the Kace Stewards, and 
less tlian three of them are on, the Course, the 
Steward or Stewards present shall increase their 
number to three by selection from members of the 
Jockey Cltib who have previously filled the office; 
and the substitutes thns appointed sliall, for the 
occasion, be clothed with the authority of official 
appointees. 

RULE V, 
A Life llembfr may Olijcet to thoir Acts. 

If a life member of the American Jockey Club 
shall object to any act or decision of the Race 
Stewards, he shall give notice, in writing, to the 
Clerk of the Course, who shall refer the' same to 
a General Meeting of the Club, to be held at an 
early day. 

RULE VI. 
Duties of Judges. 

There shall be three Judges — a Presiding Judge 
and two assistants. Tlie Judges shall decide which 
horse wins, and assign tlieir respective places in the 



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race to as raanr' of the other horses as they may 
think proper: except, when in running the best of 
heats, it is necessary to place all the horses. When 
the Judges differ in opinion, the majority shall 
govern. If one of the Judges be in the stand 
during the riuming of a heat or race, it shall not l)e 
void. The Judges shall decide all disputes relative 
to the racing, and from their decision there shall be 
no appeal : they shall receive no evidence in regard 
to foul riding except from the racing officials ; they 
shall have control and authority over the horses 
about to start, the jockeys, and all attendants on 
the horses. Any such person refusing to obey 
their orders shall be fined, suspended or ruled off 
the Course, at the discretion of the Stewards : and 
if a fine l)e not paid within twelve hours from its 
imposition, the deUnquent shall be ruled off the 
Course. The Judges shall not permit any person, 
whether an officer of the Clul) or not. to remain in 
the stand during tlie running of a race, except the 
Clerk of the Course. 

RULE V IT. 
Patrol Judges. 

The Judges ma}' appoint Patrol Judges, whose duty 
it shall be to observe the running of the horses from 
places designated to them. and. if any foul riding or 
other irregularity come under their observation, to re- 
port to the Judges immediately after the heat or race. 



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Dlslanro Jiid^ps. 

Duriug the running of the best of lieats, the Dis- 
tance Judge and his assistant shall occupy the 
distance!' stand, and, at the termination of eacli 
heat, shall report to the Judges the horse or horses 
that have been distanced. 

RULE IX. 
Timers. 

. There shaJl be one Timer and one Assistant 
Timer, who shall occupy the Timers' Stand, and 
mark upon the timing-board the time of each heat or 
race, which shall be the official time to be recorded. 

RULE X. 
Sliirter snd his Assislnnl. 

The Starter shall l^e removable by the Stewards. 
He shall select an assistant. The statement of the 
Starter and his assistant, as to incidents of the start, 
shall be conclusive. 

RULE XI. 
Duties of the Clerk of (he Course. 

Tlie Clerk of the Course, or his Deputy, shall 
attend the Judges during each race; he shall dis- 
charge all the duties, whether expressed or implied, 
required by the racing rules, and report to the 
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violations of tliose rules or of the regulations of the 
Course, coming under his notice ; lie shall keep a 
complete record of all races, and, at the close of 
each meeting, make a report of the races to the Sec- 
retary for publication : he shall receive all stakes, 
forfeits, entrance moneys and fines, and pay over all 
money so collected l>y him to the Treasure!' of the 
American Jockey Club. 

RULE XII. 
Unties of S II |» c !• i II t e n (I e n t . 

It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to 
assign to applicants such stables as he may think 
proper, to be occupied only by horses in preparation 
for racing; he shall furnish straw for bedding, for 
all such horses, for three weeks prior to each meet- 
ing ; he shall see that the Course is kept in order, at 
all proper times, for training and racing, and exercise 
such general control over it as may be necessary to 
protect its condition and the rights of all parties 
using it. He shall have general authority to pre- 
serve order and prevent improper conduct upon the 
Course and grounds connected therewith, and sliall 
decide all conflicting claims of privileges between 
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RULE I. 
Of Age. 

Raee-liorses take their ages from the first of 
January. 

RULE IL 

A Hand and a Stone. 

Four inches are a liand. Fourteen pounds are a 
stone. 

RULE in. 

Untried and Maiden Horses. 

An untried stalKon or mare, is one wliose produce 
lias never won a registered prize in any country. A 
maiden horse or mare, is one that has never won a 
registered prize in any country. 

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A purse is a sura of money or other prize, offered 
for a race for which the horses entered are obhged 
to start. The owner of a horse entered for a purse 
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reasons satisfactory to the judges of the race in 
which the default occurs, lie given ])efore the time 
appointed for weighing. 

R U L E V. 
Sweepstakes. 

A sweepstakes is a race, the prize for which is 
tlie aggregate of the stakes which the nominators 
of the horses agree to deposit : and if an additional 
sum of money, cup, piece of plate, or other reward, 
is offered to the winner, the race is still a sweep- 
stakes, whate-s'er be the name given to such addition. 
Three subscribers make a sweepstakes; and if a 
stake has the required numl.>er of subscribers at the 
expiration of the time of closing, and the num))er is 
afterwards reduced l)y death (or. in the case of a 
produce stake, by failure of produce), the race is not 
void so long as there are two horses left, the prop- 
erty of different persons: and if the number is 
reduced to two, it is still a sweepstakes. 

RULE VI. 
A Plate. 

A plate is a sum of money or other prize offered 
for a race, for which two or more horses may be 
entered \)x the same person, but in which no person 
can run, in his own name or in that of any other 
person, two horses of which he is wholly or in part 
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do so by a special clause in the articles. P]ntrance 
mone3^ to be paid at the time of naming. The rules 
governing' sweepstakes do not apply to this race. 

RULE VII. 
P0!«t Natch or Post Stake. 

For a post match or post stake, a subscriber is not 
obliged to declare the horse he intends to run until 
ten minutes before the hour appointed for the race. 

Nevertheless, when any prize is added to the 
stakes, the horse must be declared to the Clerk of 
the Course at the usual hour of closing entries of 
the day previous to the race. 

R U LE VI I I. 
Handicap. 

A handicap is a race in whicli the horses carry 
weight according to their merits, in the estimation of 
the handi capper. 

RULE IX. 
Order of Starting. 

In purses, the places of horses at starting shall be 
determined by the order in which they are drawn 
from the box ; in other races, the places at starting 
shall be determined by lot by the Clerk of the 
Course. 

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tlie Course; the others shall take their places on liis 
right, according to allotment. When, however, the 
starting' point is so situated that the right hand 
side of the track is the shorter, the jiorse entitled to 
the track shall take his place on the right, and the 
others shall take their places on his left, according 
to allotment. The winner of a heat shall at the 
next start have the pole, and the others shall take 
their positions on his right or left, as the case may 
be, in the order in wliicli they came out the previous 
heat. 

RULE X. 

Omissions of Weight. 

Wlien a match or sweepstakes is made, and no 
weight mentioned, the horses shall carry the estab- 
lished weight for age. 

RULE XL 
Omissions of I) i s t a n c i* . 

When a match or sweepstakes is made and no 
distance mentioned, the distance shall be that Avhich 
is usually run by horses of the same age as those 
engaged, viz. ; If two years old, six furlongs ; if 
three years old, one and three-quarter miles; if 
four years old, three miles ; and if five years old, 
and upward, four miles ; and if the horses be of 
difierent ages, the distance shall be fixed by the age 
of the youngest. 

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RULE XII. 
lu i g s i o II s of Day. 

If 110 day is mentioned for a race, it shall be run 
on the last day of the meeting in progress : or 
should it lie made between meetings, then on the 
last day of the next meeting. 

RULE XIII. 
Of Dress and Colors. 

All riders must be dressed in jockey costume — 
cap and jacket of silk or satin, breeches of ivliitt 
corduroy, cords, tlaimel or buckskin, and top-boots. 
The colors selected by owners are to be recorded 
witli the Clerk of tlie Course, and, when thus re- 
corded, are not to be used by others. A list of all 
colors that liave been recorded is to l)e posted in the 
Judges' stand. 

RULE XIV. 

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In all nominations and entries, the horse, mare, or 
gelding entered must be clearly identified. The 
color, sex, name, age, sire and dam must be given ; 
and if the dam has no name, such further pedigree 
and description must be added as will distinguish 
the horse intended to l^e named from any other of a 
similar pedigree. If the dam was covered by more 
than one stallion, the names of all of them must ])e 
^ mentioned. When a horse has run once over tlie 

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Course of any recognized association, it will be suf- 
ficient afterward to give his name and age. If the 
name of a liorse is changed, it is necessary, in 
entering the said horse, to give his old, as well as 
his new name, until he has run once imder it over 
a Course as above; and if his name is changed 
again, all his names must he reported for a like 
period. 

RULE XV. 

Xumiiiatioii of Foreisii Horses. 

Xo horse foaled out of the United States, shall run 
for any race, until his owner has produced a certifi- 
cate of some racing club of the country where the 
horse was foaled, or from the mayor or other public 
officer of the district, stating tlie age, pedigree, and 
color of the horse, and the marks by which it is dis- 
tinguished, or has produced other evidence of iden- 
tity satisfactory to the Stewards. 

RULE XVL 
InsiifHcient Description a Disqiinlificalioii. 

If any horse be named, without being identified 
as l^efore directed, he shall not l^e allowed to start 
in the race, but his owner shall Ije liable to pay the 
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RULE XVII. 
Fraudulent Entry a Porpctual Disqualiflcation. 

If a horse should fraudulently run, or be entered 
to run for any race by a false description, such horse 
is thenceforth disqualified for running in any race, 
and the owner shall be compelled to return any sum 
of money won in any race, which the horse may 
then and thereafter liave won. 

When a horse has been struck out of an engage- 
ment by the person legally entitled to do so, if the 
horse be permitted to start l;)y mistake for the said 
engagement, he shall not be entitled to receive the 
prize or stakes though he come in first 

If any horse has been allowed to start in con- 
sequence of fraud or misrepresentation on the -part 
of the owner or otlier person having charge of the 
horse, that person shall be ruled off the Course, and 
the horse shall be disqualified for running for any 
race thereafter. 

RULE XVIII. 

Qualilicaliun Uatrs from Time of Closing:. 

In naming or entering for any race where tliere 
shall be any particular conditions required as a 
qualification to start, it shah be sufficient if the 
horse were qualified at the expiration of the time 
allowed for naming or entering, and he shall not be 
disqualified by anything which ma_y happen after 
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article, or uiiiess he become disqualified under the 
rules relating to defaulters. If a brood-mare engaged 
in a produce stake drops her foal before the tirst of 
January, the nomination is void; and if she has a 
dead foal, or is barren, the nomination is void. 

RULE XIX. 
XoiuIiin(ioi-s not to be t'hiingpd alter Closing. 

No person who has once subscribed to a stake 
shall be allowed to withdraw his name: and no 
nomination shall be altered in any respect without 
the consent of all the parties in the race. 

RULE XX. 
Kxccption (o the Preceding IJiiIe. 

When a person takes a nomination for a stake, in 
which the forfeit is to be declared l;y a particular 
time, and does not declare forfeit by the time fixed 
in the article, he shall thenceforth be considered to 
have taken the engagement on himself, and shall he 
held equalh' liable with tlie original subscriber. 

RULE XXL 
Use of Fictitious Names. 

When any person enters a horse or subscriljes to 
a stake under a fictitious name, or in the name of a 
person not fully identified at the time, lie shall be 
considered in all respects as the owner of the horse 
and as the subscriber to the stake, and in the event 
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published iu the Forfeit List. Every person who 
wishes not to engage his liorses in his own name 
must adopt some name wliich must be registered 
with the Clerk of the Course, and he cannot enter in 
any other until the change is duly notified to him. 
No person who enters horses in an assumed name 
shall be allowed to adopt and register as such the 
same name as that of any gentleman who runs his 
horses in his own name. 

RULE XXII. 
U 11 a II t li o r i z e (I N o in i n a t i o ii s . 

Any person entering or nominating a horse for a 
race without authority from the owner, shall be 
responsible for the stake or forfeit ; entrance money 
shall be retained and added to the prize ; and tlie 
horse shall be disquahfied for running in any race, 
until the stake or forfeit is paid, unless the owner 
shall have promptly disavowed the act by letter 
addressed to the Clerk of the Course. Publication 
of the entry or nomination shall be held as notice to 
the owner. If it shall appear to the Stewards tliat 
the authority denied has been granted, the owner 
shall also l^e responsible for the stake or forfeit, and 
the horse shall be disqualified for running in any 
race until it is paid; and if the Stewards beheve 
that any fraud was designed, all persons implicated 
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RULE XXIII. 
\omluatlons not rpciiiired to be made on Sunday. 

Wlien the day fixed for the closing of, or naming 
for, any stake or plate, or for declaring forfeit or pro- 
duce, shall fall on Sunday, subscriptions, nominations, 
or declarations for such stake or plate may be re- 
ceived on the following day ; provided that there is 
an interval of one day between the day of closing, 
naming or. declaring and the day of running. 

RULE XXIV. 
Allonnnce of Weight in certain cases. 

In every race in which there is an allowance of 
weight to the produce of untried horses or mares, or 
to maiden horses or mares, such allowance shall not 
be made unless claimed before the expiration of 
the time for naming. 

RULE XXV. 
Nominations in Stalies in event of Death. 

All nominations in stakes are void by the death 
of the subscriber, except where a horse is sold with 
his engagements, and a written acknowledgement 
from both purchaser and seller has been delivered to 
the Clerk of the Course, previous to the death of the 
original subscriber. 

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all its privileges and responsibilities attach to the 
survivors. 

The death of a horse does not release tlie nomin- 
ator or purchaser from liability for a stake or forfeit. 

RULE XXVI. 
Entries in Plates not Void by Uealfa. 

Entries in plates are not void by the death of the 
nominator, and are transferred to and become the 
privilege of the actual owner, unless the horse has 
been sold without his engagements. 

Entrance money for a plate is not to be returned 
on the death of a horse. 

R U L E X X VI I. 
Kntries to Purses. 

All entries of horses to run for a purse, shall be 
made under cover, and deposited with the Clerk of 
the Course, in a box kept for that purpose, at the 
Judges' Stand, between tliree and four o'clock p. m. 
of the day previous to the race, unless the races of 
the day be not finished by the first hour named ; 
and in such case, thirty minutes after. the close of 
the last race. No entry shall be received after the 
time specified; and the box shall not be opened 
except in the presence of an officer or life member 
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RULE XXVIII. 
Respecting Stakes and Forfeits. 

All stakes shall be put in the hands of the Clerk 
of the Course before the riders are weighed. On 
the deposit of a stake, the right to forfeit ceases. 
When any person has more than one nomination in 
a stake, lie shall not be allowed to start any horse 
for it unless the forfeits be paid for every horse 
which does not start, belonging to him, or standing 
in his name, or in the same name as the horse which 
runs, as well as the stakes for those which do. 

RULE XXIX. 
Arrears of Owners and Namers to be paid before Starting. 

Xo person shall start a horse for any race, either 
in his own name or that of any other person, unless 
both the owner and namer of such horse shall have 
paid all former stakes and forfeits; and this rule 
shall extend to forfeits incurred on any Course under 
the control of any recognized association, provided 
an official notice of such forfeits being due shall 
have been received by the Clerk of the Course, and 
published in the Forfeit List. 

RULE XXX. 
Arrears dae for a Horse to be paid before he can start. 

No horse shall start for any race unless all former 
stakes and forfeits due for that horse be paid before 
starting, provided notice has been given as above. 

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RULE XXXI. 
The Forfeit List. 

A list of unpaid forfeits, with the name of the 
subscriber to the stake, and the name or description 
of the horse, with the name or sufficient description 
of the stake, and the amount of the forfeit due, 
shall be attached to the official summary of the 
meeting-; and they shall continue to be published 
until paid. A similar list shall be posted in a con- 
spicuous place in the Judges' Stand, in the office of 
the American Jockey Club, and, should there be a 
recognized "betting-room," there also. 

RULE XXXII. 
Persons appearing in Forfeit List Disqualified. 

No person whose name shall appear in the pub- 
lished forfeit list shall be entitled to enter or run a 
horse for any race whatever, either in his own name 
or in the name of any other person, until he shall 
have paid up all the forfeits in respect of whicli his 
name appears in the list. 

RULE XXXIII. 
Horses appearing in Forfeit List not qualified to be entered. 

No horse which appears in the published forfeit 

list shall be qualified to be entered or to run for any 

race whatever, until the forfeits mentioned in the 

)^ said list, as due for such horse, shall have been paid. 

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RULE XXXIV. 
Suspected Nouinations may be struck out. 

In order to prevent persons who are defaulters 
from evading these laws, and continuing to engage 
horses by the use of fictitious names, the Stewards 
shall have the power of calling upon the nominator 
to produce satisfactory testimony that the horse 
named is not the property, either wholly or in part, 
of any person whose name appears in the published 
hst of defaulters, and, if the nominator shall fail to 
do so, the Stewards may cause the nomination to be 
erased. 

RULE XXXV. 

Liability for Kuga^enients of Horses Sold. ~ 

When a horse is sold with his engagements, or 
any part of them, the seller has not the power of 
striking the horse out of the engagements with 
which he is sold; but as the original subscriber 
remains liable to the respective winners for the 
amount of the forfeits in each of these engagements, 
he may, if compelled to pa}^ them by the purchaser's 
default, place the forfeit on the forfeit list, in the 
usual manner, as due from the purchaser to himself, 
and until this forfeit is repaid, both the purchaser 
and the horse remain under the same disabilities as 
if the purchaser had been the original subscriber. 
In aU cases of sale by private treaty, the written 
acknowledgment of both parties that the horse was 

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sold with his engagements is necessary to entitle 
either buyer or seller to the benefit of this rule ; but 
when the horse is sold by public auction the adver- 
tised conditions of the sale are sufficient evidence, 
and if he has been claimed as the winner of a race 
of which it was a condition that the winner was to 
be sold with his engagements, this also is sufficient. 

RULE XXXVI. 
Forfeits paid as above may be placed on Forfeit List. 

When a person has a horse engaged in the name 
of another person, and is entitled, by purchase or 
otherwise, to start the horse for such engagement, 
but is prevented by any of the preceding laws from 
starting his horse without previously paying up for- 
feits to which he is not otherwise liable, he ma}^, if 
he pays these forfeits, start his horse, and have the 
forfeits, with the names of the horses for which 
they are due, placed on the forfeit list in the \isual 
manner, as due to himself. 

RULE xxxvn. 

Weights. 

The following weights shall be carried, viz : 

Two-year-olds shall carry .... 
Three-year-olds shall carry .... 

and after 1st September 
Four-year-olds shall carry .... 
Five-year-olds shall carry .... 
Six-3'ear-olds, and upwards, shall carry . 





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In all races exclusively for three-year-olds the 
weights shall be one Innidred and ten pounds, and 
in all races exclusively for two-year-olds, the weight 
sliall be one hundred pounds. Except in handicaps 
and in races where the weights are fixed absolutely 
in the articles, tliree pounds shall be allowed to 
mares and geldings. 

RULE XXXVIII. 
Feather Weights. 

Feather-weights shall be considered seventy -five 
pounds; tiie usual declaration must be made wlien 
tlie jockey carries above tliat weight. 





RULE XXXIX. 
Welter Weights. 

Welter-weights sliall be two stones added to tlie 
respective weight for age. 

RULE XL. 
Of Karnes and Numbers. 

The name of every horse intended to start in any 
race except a purse must be notified to the Clerk of 
the Course, and his number be exhibited, ten min- 
utes before the race ; and if any alteration be made 
in the numbers after they have been exhibited, the 
Judges may call upon the owner, or trainer, or 
jockey, for an explanation. If this is not satisfac- 



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toiy, the owner or traiuer may I:)e lined, at the dis- 
cretion of tlie Judges, in an}^ siuii not exceeding 
$100, and tlie horse shall not be allowed to start in 
another race, until the fine is paid. 

RULE XLI. 
To Weigh before and after Race. 

A jockey is required to show the weight his horse 
is about to carry, to the Clerk of the Course, at the 
usual place of weighing, at least ten minutes before 
the race, unless excused by the Judges for some 
special reason, in which case the fact must be noti- 
fied to the Clerk of the Course. A violation of this 
rule shall be punished by fine, at tlie discretion of 
the Judges. 

Every rider shall immediately after the race or 
heat, ride his horse to the usual place of weighing, 
then and there alight, after obtaining the consent of 
the Judges, and not before, and weigh to the satis- 
faction of the Clerk of the Course, before doing 
which he is forbidden to touch any thing beyond 
the equipments of his horse. Until ordered to dis- 
mount by the Judges, the rider must not suffer any 
person to touch or put cover on his horse. The 
person unsaddling the horse shall, as soon as the 
saddle and equipments are removed, hand them to 
the rider, who shall immediately carry them to the 



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scale to be weighed. If the rider be disabled by an 
accident to himself or horse, which should render 
him incapable of riding back, he may walk or be 
carried to the scale. 

If the jockey dismounts without permission, or 
otherwise violates this rule, his horse is disqualified 
for winning the race at issue, unless he can allege 
extraordinary circumstances, the sufficiency of wliich 
must be decided by the Judges. 

If a jockey riding a beaten horse does not retiu'n to 
weigh, he sliall be fined not less than $25 nor more 
than $100 and shall not ride until the fine is paid: 
and if it can be proved that the owner or trainer 
connived at this violation of the law, they shall be 
fined $100 each, and the horse shall be disqualified 
for running in any race, until all the fines are paid. 

The jocke}' is to be weighed with all the equip- 
ments of his horse, except tlie bridle, which it is 
optional with liim to weigh, unless required to do so 
by tlie Clerk of the Course ; but nothing shall be 
weighed off that has not been weighed on. No 
whip, or substitute for a whip, shall be allowed in the 
scales in order to make weight, but if one has been 
carried by the jockey, its weight shall be reported to 
the Judges by the Clerk of the Course, in case the 
weight thus carried would be sufficient to disqualify 
the horse. An allowance of 1 lb. will be made for a 
curb or double bridle, but no weight is allowed for a j ^ 

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snaffle bridle, unless it is put in the scale before the 
horse is led away. 

Horses not bringing out the weight shown before 
the race, or within 1 lb. of it, shall be disqualified 
for winning the race ; but the Judges may make 
allowance for overplus occasioned by exposure to 
rain or mud. 

R U LE X LI I . 
Over-weight. 

Each jockey shall be allowed two pounds, and no 
more, above the weight specified for his horse to 
carry, (all allowances to which he is entitled being 
deducted,) unless a declaration of the extra weight 
the horse is about to carry has been made to the 
Clerk of the Course at least ten minutes before the 
race ; and the extra weiglit shall be announced or 
appended to the horse's number when it is put up ; 
and the weight each horse actually carried, if more 
than two lbs. above his weight, shall be stated in the 
published summary of the meeting; but in no case 
shall a horse be allowed to start carrying more than 
five pounds over-weight, unless the Judges should 
be unable to decide before the race to what penalties 
the horse is liable or to what allowances he is 
entitled, in which case he may start with any weight 
his owner may think proper to put up. No horse 
can be disqualified for winning on account of over- 
weight with which he has been allowed to start. 

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R U LE X LI I I. 
Kidcrs Falling. 

If a rider fall from his horse while riding a heat 
or race, and another person of sufficient weight ride 
him in. no penalty shall be exacted for over-weight, 
and the horse shall not he disquahfied for winning, 
if brought back to the spot where the rider fell. 

RULE XLIV. 
Over-weigjil for Purse. 

The owner of a horse entered for a purse and not 
allowed to start, owing to non-compliance with the 
rules relative to weights, shall be fined not less than 
$100 nor more than $250. to be paid within twelve 
hours, under penalty of being ruled off the Course ; 
and if the Stewards believe that the violation was 
intended to evade the obligation to start, the horse 
shall be disqualified for running in any race until 
the fine is paid, and the owner shall also be ruled off 
the Course. 

RULE X L V. 
Of Starting. 

The horses shall be started by a flag, unless other- 
wise ordered by the Stewards, and there shall be 
no start until, and no recall after, the Assistant 
Starter drops his flag, in response to the signal from 
his chief. The horses shall be summoned for each 
heat or race by the bugle-call or bell on the Judges' 
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RULE XLVI. 
Horses going to Post considered Starling. 

When the riders of the horses brought out to run 
for any race are called upon by the person appointed 
to start them to take their places for that purpose, 
every horse which comes up to the post shall be 
considered as starting in the race; and when the 
start is ordered by the assistant starter's flag, any 
person refusing to start one of the horses, because 
of a bad start, or for any other reason deemed in- 
sufficient by the Stewards, shall be ruled off the 
Course. 

RULE X L V I I . 
Power or Starter. 

The Starter is prohibited from making a running 
start ; the horses must walk up, and be started from 
a walk. He has authority to order the jockeys up in 
a line as far behind the starting-post as he may 
think proper, and any jockey disobeying the orders 
of the Starter, or taking any unfair advantage, shall 
be punished by a fine or suspension, according to 
the nature or degree of the offense, at the discretion 
of the Starter, subject, however, to the revision of 
the Stewards ; and any jockey who is fined and does 
not pay the fine within twelve hours from its impo- 
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RULE XLVIII. 
Of Aids. 

No person shall be permitted to turn or lead a 
horse to the post; the horses shall be started by 
their jockeys, and no other person shall strike a 
horse to get him from the post, or during the run- 
ning of a race, nor shall any person stand in the 
track to point out a path for the rider. A violation 
of this rule shall be punished at the discretion of 
the Stewards. 

RULE X L I X. 
Of False Starts. 

When a false start is made, no horse making the 
false start, nor any liorse remaining at the post, shall 
have clothes thrown upon him, or water given him, 
or his mouth sponged out; nor shall the rider be 
permitted to dismount; nor shall any delay be per- 
mitted; but the horses shall be started as soon as 
brought back to the post. Horses making a false 
start shall return to the post by the shortest way; 
and if the Starter perceive that a longer way is taken, 
he shall not delay the start for them ; any infringe- 
ment of tins rule shall be punished by fine or suspen- 
sion, at the discretion of the Starter, subject, how- 
ever, to the revision of the Stewards. When a false 
start is made, and the horse refuses to return to the 
post, the Starter may permit him to be led back be- 
hind the post, and then let loose. Any person fined ^ 

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under this rule, who does not pay the fine within 

twelve hours from its imposition, shall be ruled off 

the Course. 

RULE L. 

or Accident. 

If an accident happen to a horse or rider, the 
Starter may grant a reasonable delay, not to exceed 
fifteen minutes, which, in extreme cases, may be 
extended by the judges. 

RULE LI. 
Of Boltiug. 

If any horse shall run from the Course into the 
field, he shall be disqualified for Avinning the race, 
although he may come out ahead, unless he turn and 
again enter the Course at the point from which he 
swerved. 

RULE L I I . 
Foul Hiding. 

If in running for any race, one horse shall cross 
or jostle another, so as to impede him, such horse is 
disqualified for winning the race, whether such jostle 
or cross happened by the swerving of the horse, or by 
the foul or careless riding of the jockey, or otherwise. 

Although a leading horse is entitled to any part of 
the Course, if he swerves to either side when a horse 
is so near him that the latter is compelled to shorten 
his stride; or if a horse strikes another while run- 
ning a race, so as to injure or impede him ; or if a 

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jockey strikes or does any act of violence to another 
jockey or horse, during the running of a race, it is 
foul riding, which in all cases, whether accidental or 
not, disqualifies the horse for winning the race ; and 
if the judges are satisfied that the riding was inten- 
tionally foul, or that the jockey was instructed or 
induced so to ride. aU persons guilty of complicity 
in the offense shall be ruled off the Course. 

When a horse is disqualified for foul riding, the 
penalty attaches to every horse in the race belong- 
ing wholly or in part to the same owner. 

Complaints of foul riding can onl}'- be received 
from the owner, trainer or jockey of the horse 
aftected, and must be made to the Judges, either 
before or immediately after his jockey has passed 

the scales. 

RULE LIII. 
When Heat is Void. 

If the start takes place on the wrong side of the 
starting post, or if no person officially appointed 
occupies the Judges stand, the heat or race is void, 
and must be run again — in twenty minutes, if the 
distance to be run is two miles or less, and in thirty 
minutes, if over two miles. 

RULE L I V. 
Of Collusion. 

When a dead heat for a race not of heats is run, 
the owners of the horses making the dead heat maj- 

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agree to divide the prize or stakes, and thus termin- 
ate the race J but an agreement between two or 
more persons not to oppose each other in any race, 
or to run jointly against any other person or persons, 
or to divide the prize or stakes after a dead heat, and 
ahow one horse to walk over for a deciding heat, is 
illegal, and, upon proof of such agreement, satisfac- 
tory to the Stewards, the parties thereto shall be 
ruled off" the Course, and their horses disqualified 
for winning in all races to which such agreement 
had reference. 

RULE LV. 
Winner of a Heat or Race. 

The horse that first gets his head to the winning- 
post shall be considered the winner of the heat or 



» RULE L V I . 
or Henls. 

In a race of heats, the horse that actually wins 
two heats, or distances the field, wins the race. 
When two horses have each won a heat, they only 
shall start for a third, and the preference Ijetween 
them shall be determined liy it. When a race is 
won by two heats, the preference of the horses is 
determined by the places they get in the second 
heat; and when a race is won by three heats, the 
horses starting in a third heat shall only be placed. 

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There shall be no distance in a third heat. Horses 
started and drawn before a race of heats is won, are 
held to be distanced. 

RULE LVII. 
In Heat Races, only One Horse or One Kider in same interest ean Start. 

Xo person shall start more than one horse of 
which he is the owner, either wholly or in part, 
either in his own name or in that of any other per- 
son, for any race of heats : nor shall two riders 
from the same stable be permitted to ride in such 
race. 

RULE LVin. 

Horses not to lie Drawn during Race of Heats. 

Any person who shall sell or draw his horse (if 
by the sale the horse be drawn) dnring the pendency 
of a race of heats, unless by permission of the 
Judges, shall be ruled off the Course. 

RULE LIX- 
Of Time between Heats. 



The time between heats shall be — 
In mile heats .... 
In two mile heats .... 
In three mile heats 
I In four mile heats .... 

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25 minutes. 
35 minutes. 
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RULE LX . 
Of Dead Heats. 

If for any race not to be rnn in heats, the first 
two or more Jiorses shall come in so near together 
that the Judge shall not be able to decide which 
won. those horses only shah run for such prize over 
again, after the last race on tlie same day, but at an 
interval of not less than thirty minutes. The other 
horses which started are deemed losers, and are en- 
titled to their respective places, as if the race had 
been finally determined the first time. 
, If for an}' race of heats, it cannot be decided 
which horse won, it is a dead heat; and, if it be a 
first heat, the horses not distanced can start for the 
second; and, in such case, only those making the 
dead heat and the winner of the second heat can 
start for a third heat; and, if it be a second heat, 
the winner of the first heat, and those making a 
dead heat, alone can start for a third. 

RULE LXL 
UfTeet of Dividing after a Dead Heat. 

Wlien horses run a dead heat for any race not to 
be run in heats, and the parties agree to divide the 
stakes, such horses shall be liable to carry extra 
weight as winners of that race, whether one of the 
horses walk over for a deciding heat or not, and if 
there is any money for the second horse, they divide 
that also. 

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RULE LXII. 
Dead Heat for Second Place. 

When horses run a dead heat for the second place, 
they divide any money that may be payable to the 
second horse, and if there is any money for the 
third, they divide that also; and if any of these 
horses run for a race in which there is a penalty for 
having received a certain amount of money as second 
horse, they shall be considered as having received 
only the amount of their respective shares. 

RULE LXIII. 
When entitled to Second Monej. 

When it is a condition of a stake or plate, that the 
owner of a second horse shall receive a certain sum 
of money out of the stakes or entrance money, and 
the race is walked over for, or no second horse is 
placed, the winning horse is entitled to the whole. 
When the entrance money for a purse is advertised 
to be given to the owner of the second horse, and 
the purse is walked over for, or no second horse is 
placed, the entrance money is to be retained. If the 
money advertised to be given to the second horse is 
a separate donation from the race fund or other 
source, and the race is walked over for, or no second 
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RULE LX I V. 
Of Distancing. 

All horses whose heads have not reached the dis- 
tance-stand as soon as the leading horse arrives at 
the winning-post, are distanced, bnt as indispensable 
proof of the fact, the distance judge must have 
dropped his flag in response to the Judge's flag. 

In heats of 1 mile, 40 yards shall be a distance. 

In heats of two miles, 50 ^-ards shall be a distance. 

In heats of three miles, 60 yards shall be a distance. 

In heats of four miles, 70 yards shall be a distance. 



RULE LXV. 
Effeet of I) isqu all fie at ion. 

In rnnniug the best of heats, horses disqualified 

for winning are to be held as distanced ; and in 

other races are not to be placed. Whenever a horse 

which has come in first is disqualified, the heat or 

race shall be awarded to the next best horse, which 

is qualified. 

RULE LXVI. 

Of Selling Races. How the Winner may be claimed. 

AVhen it is made a condition of any race that the 
winner shall be sold for any given sum, the owner 
of the second horse being first entitled, etc., no other 
person than one who ran a horse in the race shall he 
entitled to claim. The claim must be made to the 
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hour after the race. The horse claimed shall not be 
delivered until the amount is paid to the Clerk of the 
Course, and he must be paid for by ten o'clock at 
night on the day of the race, otherwise the party 
claiming shall not be entitled to demand the horse 
at any future period; but, nevertheless, the owner 
of the horse may insist upon the claimant taking and 
paying for the horse claimed. 

RULE LXVII. 
Of Sales by Auction. 

When it is a condition of a selling race that the 
winner shall be put up at auction after the race, the 
half of an}'- surplus which may thereby be obtained 
over and above the price for which the horse was 
entered to be sold, shall be paid to the owner of the 
second horse, and this shall not invalidate the 
privilege of the second horse as to the prior claim of 
any beaten horse, under Rule LXYIII. 

RULE LXVIII. 
Claim of Beaten Horses. 

Any horse running for a selling race is liable to 
be claimed by the owner of any other horse in the 
race for the price for which he is entered to be sold 
and" the amount of the stake — the owner of the 
second horse to be first entitled to the claim, and the 
others in the order in which their horses are placed, 
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RULE LXIX. 
A pprson can claim but one horKC 

No person can claim more than one horse in the 
samej race, and if two or more persons equally 
entitled wish to"'claim, they shall draw lots for the 
priority. 

RULE LXX. 
Failure lo deliver or pny fcr horars. 

Any person, who refuses to deliver, or fails to pay 
for a horse purchased or claimed in a selling- race, 
shall be ruled oft' the Course. 

RULE LXXL 
Kxtr.t Weight and Alloivances. 

When it is the condition of any race that horses 
shall carry extra weight for winning a certain 
number of prizes during the year, or be allowed 
weight, for having been beaten a certain number of 
times during the year, such winnings and losings 
shall date from the first of January preceding, and 
shall extend to the time of starting, unless otlierwise 
specified. 

RULE LXXIL 
Weight not Accumulative. 

Extra weight and allowances are not accumulative, 
unless so specified in the conditions. Horses do not 
carry extra weight for winning a match, and are not 
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match. Winners of luirdle races are not considered 
winners in flat racing. A horse walking over or 
receiving forfeit, except for a match, is deemed a 
winner. 

RULE LXXIII. 
Value of Prizes, how calculated. 

In estimating the vahie of any prize, no deduction 
shall be made, except of the winner's own stake, or 
entrance money, and of an}^ sum or sums required 
by the conditions of the race to be paid out of the 
stakes or entrance money to the owners of any other 
horse or horses in the race — the entrance for a purse 
not to be deducted ; and every prize not in money 
shall be estimated at its advertised value in currency, 
and if such value is not designated, it shall be taken 
at its cost price. 

RULE LXXIV. 
Objection to Qualifieation. 

When the age or qualification of a horse is objected 
to, either before or after running for any race, the 
Stewards, or those whom they may appoint, shall have 
power to order an examination of the horse's mouth by 
competent persons, and to call for all such evidence as 
they may require, and their decision shall be final. 
If the disqualification is made out, and they believe 
that the horse was entered fraudulently, all persons 
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RULE LXXV. 
>V h e II Complaints iii n s t be made. 

All complaints of foul riding-, or of horses not run- 
ning the proper course, or of any other irregularities 
occurring in the heat or race, must be made to the 
Judges by the owner, trainer, or jockey of a horse 
in the race, either before or immediately after his 
jockey has passed the scales. Objections to winning- 
horses on other grounds cannot be entertained unless 
made to the Stewards before the conclusion of the 
race meeting, saver and excepting charges of fraudu- 
lent entry, or of running horses under a false descrip- 
tion, which may be investigated at any period 
within one year from the date of the offense. 

RULE LXXVI. 
Objections to Qualifleation, when to be made. 

Wlieri the qualification of any horse is objected to 
by ten o'clock in the morning of the day of the race, 
the owner must produce evidence to prove the 
qualification, satisfactory to the Stewards or Clerk 
of the Course, before the race is run ; and if he shall 
start his horse without doing so, the prize shall be 
withheld for a period to be fixed upon by the 
Stewards, at the expiration of which time, if the 
qualification be not proved to the satisfaction of the 
Stewards, he shall not be entitled to the prize", 
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given to the owner of the second horse. When the 
quaUflcation of the horse is oljjected to after that 
time, the person making the objection must prove 
tlie disquahfication. 

RULE LXXVII. 
For the Protection of Owners, etc. 

No owner or trainer shah employ a rider, rubber 
or helper from another stable, who has not produced 
a written discharge from his last employer, or fur- 
nished satisfactory evidence of the termination of his 
engagement. On receiving a complaint in writing 
from any owner or trainer claiming to be aggrieved 
in this respect, the Clerk of the Course shall notify 
the person alleged to be in fault, either personally 
or by letter addressed to his usual post-office, of the 
complaint against him and of the penalty attached to 
the offense, and shall give him a reasonable time to 
refute the charge. If he fail to exculpate himself, or 
to show that such rider, rubber or helper, is no 
longer in his service, before the expiration of the 
time given, he shall be ruled off the Course, and 
shall only be relieved from the disability when the 
Stewards, satisfied that he is no longer censurable 
in the matter, may think proper to do so. 

RULE LXXVIIL 
For the Protection of Kiders, etc. 

Any owner or trainer who shah owe any hired 
rider, rubber or helper more than three months' 

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wages, payment of which has been demanded and 
refused, shall, upon proof of the fact satisfactory to 
tlie Stewards, be ruled off tlie Course. The Stew- 
ards shall not entertain any complaint, under this 
rule, unless it is attested by the affidavit of the cred- 
itor before a magistrate and substantiated by evi- 
dence satisfactory to them, and shall not impose the 
penalty until they have given to the person owing 
such wages reasonable notice of the complaint, either 
personally or by letter addressed to his usual post 
office ; and they shall remove the disability upon 
proof satisfactory to them of the payment of the 
debt. 

RULE LXXIX. 
Persons Kxpelled from other Courses, 

Every person Avho is expelled from, or ruled off 
the Course of any racing Association, recognized by 
the American Jockey Club, is necessarily ruled off 
every Course under its control. 

RULE LXXX. 
Of Decorum. 

If any owner, trainer, jockey, or attendant of a 
horse use improper language to the officers of the 
Course, or be guilty of any improper conduct, the 
p\mishment of which is not otherwise provided for, 
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RULE LXXXI. 
Of Persons allowed on Course during Race. 

After the horses are ordered to the starting-post, 
and until the Judges direct the gates to be re-opened, 
no person, except the racing officials and the owners, 
trainers, and immediate attendants of the horses in 
the race, shall be allowed on the Course to be run 
over. 

RULE LXXXII. 
Striking out of Engagements. 

No horse shall be considered as struck out of his 
engagement unless the declaration be made by the 
owner or some person authorized by him, to the 
Clerk of the Course or to the Secretary, who shall 
record the day and hour of its receipt, and give early 
publicity thereto in the subscription rooms. 

RU LE LX XXIII. 
Cases unprovided for. 

In all matters relating to the races, or running of 
a race, not provided for in these rules, the Stewards 
and Judges shall decide according to the best of 
their judgment and the usages of the turf, and from 
their decision there shall be no appeal. 



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RULE I. 

In all ]3ets, there must be a possibility to win 
when the bet is made. "You cannot win where 
you cannot lose." 

RULE II. 

Bets go as the prize or stakes go. If, however, 
an objection be made and sustained, to the qualifica- 
tion of a horse on the ground of incorrect pedigree 
or nomination after the race is run, the bets shall go 
to the horse that comes in first, provided he is of the 
right age, and in other respects has not transgressed 
the rules of racing ; but if the owner of a horse, or 
a person on his behalf, succeed by fraud or by culpa- 
ble misrepresentation, in starting him for a race for 
which he is legally disqualified, making himself liable 
to the penalties in Rule XVII of Racing Rules, the 
bets will go with the prize or stakes, whether any 
objection be made either before or after the race. 

RULE III. 

All bets are play or pay, unless otherwise stipu- 
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RULE IV. 

All double bets must be considered play or pay. 

RULE V. 

Confirmed bets cannot be off, except by mutual 
consent or by failure to make stakes at the time and 
place which may have been agreed upon, in which 
case it is optional with a bettor not in default to 
declare then and there that the bet stands. If at 
the time specified for making stakes, the horse or 
horses backed are struck out of their engagements, 
the bet is already lost, unless a start has been stipu- 
lated, and the winner is entitled to payment without 
depositing his stake. If there is no stipulation when 
the bet is made for the deposit of stakes, they can- 
not be demanded afterward. Bets between members 
of the betting-room are not governed by this rule 
where it conflicts with any regulation or practice 
there established. 

RULE VL 

All bets on races depending between any two 
horses are void, if those horses become the property- 
of the same person or his confederate, subsequently 
to the bets being made. 

RULE VII. 

All bets between particular horses are void if 

neither of them is placed in the race, unless agreed 

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RULE VIII. 

If any bet shall be made 1>y signal or indication 
after the race has been determined, such bet shall be 
considered fraudulent and void. 

RULE IX. 

The person who lays the odds has a right to 
choose a horse or the field; when a person has 
chosen a horse, the field is what starts against him. 

RULE X. 

If odds are laid, without mentioning the horse be- 
fore the race is over, the bet must be determined by 
the state of the odds at the time of making it. 

RULE XI. 

When a race is postponed, all bets must stand ; 
but if the slightest difference in the terms of the 
engagement is made, all bets are void. 

RULE XII. 

Bets made on horses winning any number of races 
within the year shall be understood as meaning, be- 
tween the 1st of January and the 31st of December, 

both inclusive. 

RULE XIII. 

If a bet is made between two horses, with a for- 
feit affixed. — say $100, half forfeit, — and both horses 
start, either party may declare forfeit ; and the per- 

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son making such a declaration would pay $50 if the 
other horse won, hut would receive nothing in the 
event of his horse winning the race. 

RULE XIV. 

Money given to have a bet laid shall not l;>e re- 
turned though the race be not run. 

RULE XV. 

Matches and bets are void on the decease of either 
party before the match or bet is determined. 

RULE XVL 

Bets on a match which terminates in a dead heat 

are void. 

RULE xvn. 

When horses run a dead heat for any race, not a 
match, and the owners agree to divide, all bets be- 
tween such horses, or between either of them and 
the field, must be settled by the money betted being 
put together and divided between the parties, in the 
same proportwn as the prize or stakes. 

If the dead heat be the first event of a double Ijet 
between either of the horses making it and the field, 
the bet is void ; unless one horse received above a 
moiety, which would constitute him a winner in a 
double event. 

If the dead heat be the first event of a double hai 
between the horses making it, the bet is void, unless 

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the division was unequal, in which case a horse 
receiving a larger proportion would in a double event 
be considered as better placed in the race than one 
receiving a smaller sum. 

If a bet is made on one of the horses that ran the 
dead heat against a beaten horse, he who backed the 
horse that ran the dead h.eat wins the bet. 

RULE XVIII. 

If a match be run by mistake, after the principals 

have compromised, it does not affect the betting or 

the result. 

RULE XIX. 

Pools sold shall not be play or pay, unless so de- 
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